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The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative has joined forces with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, HRMI. HRMI has adopted the SERF Index and underlying metrics as its economic and social rights scores for their “income-adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI proides extensive data visualization tools showing country performance over time and comparing country performance […]

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph are the 2019 winners of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for improving World Order. The trio received the award for their book Fulfilling Economic and Social Rights. They will travel to Louisville, Kentucky to give a series of lectures on their book and will formally receive the […]

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative, HRMI, has adopted the Right Indices comprising the SERF Index as their economic and social rights metrics. They have just launched data visualization tools that allow you easily to compare a country’s performance on the different rights at a given time and over time, and to compare performance on each […]

The 2017 SERF Index Update covers the years 2005 through 2015. This major update incorporates the construction of updated Achievement Possibility Frontiers using 2011 PPP$ GDP per capita data. Learn more about this update here. Download the 2017 data here

Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative

The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative was initiated by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Terra Lawson-Remer at the New School, and Susan Randolph at the University of Connecticut, and its start-up was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant # 1061457.